Again, a Lakota man has been mocked singing traditional songs.
A video of the incident captured by an onlooker and circulated on social media has outraged locals who see the encounter in the same vein as a viral Washington, D.C., encounter this month, in which a group of boys in “Make America Great Again” hats appeared to mock a Native American man drumming and singing during an Indigenous Peoples March.
“It’s obviously apparent that the behavior of the Covington MAGA boys created a trend where young people — especially privileged, non-Native [young people] — think it’s OK to publicly humiliate Native people,” SwiftBird’s wife, Vandee Khalsa-SwiftBird, said in an interview. “It’s nothing new; it’s just that it’s being caught on camera now.”
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Three of the women appear to be dancing, making noises and bowing perhaps two feet in front of SwiftBird until Wilkerson approaches them with his camera. At that point, the women use their hats to cover their faces and start walking away.
This is revolting and racist. Apologists can't say they're developmentally immature, or reacting to a different language as young children. No. They knew what they were doing was wrong, or they wouldn't have covered their faces and ran. Would they? But it was acceptable enough for them to do it in broad daylight. Why? Here's one possible answer.
There was the denazification of Germany, and the United States needs to decolonize itself with "a new education structure," teaching the American Indian and the Native Alaskan are not vanished races. Unless of course - it doesn't want to.
But then we'll have to denazify all those damned MAGA hats.
Saturday, Feb 2, 2019 · 6:01:21 PM +00:00 · Winter Rabbit
Indian Country Today has this:
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After initial interactions of the women -- who are wearing cowboy hats -- the man recording the video says "You should be embarrassed." The women begin to walk away and some cover their faces with their hats. He also asks the women for their names, which they do not give.
One of the women says "I'm gonna f---n kill you. Kill your mother."
The person filming asks if the women are racists, which they deny. He also films their license plate.